Iraq: Decade of Hell

I'm not going to lie, I am terrified by things likes this. Firstly because I remember watching the build up and beginning of this War and buying it
all without question and not stopping to question the media spin on it. Now looking back on it, the statistics speak for themselves:

And secondly it terrifies me that despite the truth coming to the surface people still ferociously defend it. With people still able to defend these
atrocities and fall blindly for the garbage the media sells, are we still ripe for more of these wars?

The Bush administration purposely fabricated evidence, to bomb Iraq, change it's regime just for the main prize to privatize it's oil. He killed
innocent Iraqis and sent many of our young men and women to an early grave. All in the name of big oil. With all the evidence that has come to
light, Bush and his cronies are still walking free! Any other government leader and their administration would have been put on trial for war crimes.

It's also a slap in the face of every American, when our own congress refused to press for an investigation into the Bush administration for possible
war crimes. Maybe they were afraid of being implemented into charges of war crimes too? Every American should now question any conflict or war we
engage in. If our own representatives can't protect us from criminal activities conducted by our own government, who will?

The Bush administration purposely fabricated evidence, to bomb Iraq, change it's regime just for the main prize to privatize it's oil. He killed
innocent Iraqis and sent many of our young men and women to an early grave. All in the name of big oil. With all the evidence that has come to
light, Bush and his cronies are still walking free! Any other government leader and their administration would have been put on trial for war crimes.

It's also a slap in the face of every American, when our own congress refused to press for an investigation into the Bush administration for possible
war crimes. Maybe they were afraid of being implemented into charges of war crimes too? Every American should now question any conflict or war we
engage in. If our own representatives can't protect us from criminal activities conducted by our own government, who will?

I love uninformed posts like this.

Exactly how much oil are we getting from Iraq? You might be surprised.

And if that was our purpose why not invade a country that has more? Iraq is one of the lowest producers in the region of oil, especially compared to
Saudi Arabia or Iran.

And Bush was going off of faulty information but it was looked at by the Congress and other nations and believed to be reliable so how do you blame
him for making it up?

We also gave Saddam plenty of time to fall in line with UN demands which he refused. He could still be in power today if he had wanted to. And people
forget that he did use chemical weapons and invade 2 other nearby countries while subjecting his people to all sorts of horrendous crimes.

I didn't like the war simply because of the cost but you can certainly find justification for it if you want.

I used to think it was all about oil but now that the Chinese have a bunch of the oil contracts it makes me wonder.

I am starting to think it was all about destabilizing the region. Iraq is a mess. We never did anything to help them rebuild the infrastructure we
destroyed.

You need to get down on your freakin knees and beg for forgiveness.

So many lives destroyed. Oh you live over here in your freaking glass cage. You don't know what it is like to live in a war zone.

And why were those sanctions in place? Because Saddam and his regime were such noble people or is it because of things he was doing that the world
found bad?

And what exactly did we snatch and grab other than a large debt?

Yes we don't know the true motives of the Bush administration but it could be as simple as him wanting to leave a legacy of dictator toppling or it
could be more personal. Maybe he actually did think he was doing a good thing or maybe he was having a macho moment.

He did have almost unanimous support however so these people claiming that he should be held for war crimes are going to have to hold quite a few
countries and democrats responsible also. Even most of the nation agreed we should do it. Very few people such as myself thought it was a waste and
there wasn't much holding him back.

You probably weren't even born yet but sanctions were implemented in 1990. It had to do with slant drilling and crossing their borders into Kuwait.
In fact our CIA darling Saddam, even asked George Bush if it was alright. He gave him a green light and then back stabbed him.

You probably weren't even born yet but sanctions were implemented in 1990. It had to do with slant drilling and crossing their borders into Kuwait.
In fact our CIA darling Saddam, even asked George Bush if it was alright. He gave him a green light and then back stabbed him.

You need to read a book.

Bush was trying to deal with a collapsing Soviet Union and making sure the world did not explode into war in the vaccum being left, and he did a
fairly decent job at minimalizing the fallout from that. Its not surprising he changed views multiple times with different countries with how quickly
everything was happening.

Just because the CIA supports a person or a group for a certain event does not mean that you have a pass to remain in our good graces forever you
know.

That's another problem many people have, "but we created them and were friends with them, then we backstabbed them!"

Do you know how brutal of a thug Saddam was? What fiends his sons were?

While the motives of the GW admin were not pure, people shouldn't bury the truth about how brutal and cruel Saddam and his sons were. And Saddam was
not a CIA puppet, he spent some time working for the CIA, but that does not make the CIA responsible for everything evil the man did.

Do you know how brutal of a thug Saddam was? What fiends his sons were?

While the motives of the GW admin were not pure, people shouldn't bury the truth about how brutal and cruel Saddam and his sons were. And Saddam was
not a CIA puppet, he spent some time working for the CIA, but that does not make the CIA responsible for everything evil the man did.

You better do your research on the subject dear, because you're in the minority believing the government invaded Iraq because of
Sadam's implication in 9/11 and his possession of WMD's.

Exactly how much oil are we getting from Iraq? You might be surprised.

It's not how much oil it's the profit being made from privatizing it. Iraq doesn't even control their own oil!!

Before the 2003 invasion, Iraq's domestic oil industry was fully nationalized and closed to Western oil companies. A decade of war later, it is
largely privatized and utterly dominated by foreign firms. Antonia Juhasz From ExxonMobil and Chevron to BP and Shell, the West's largest oil
companies have set up shop in Iraq. So have a slew of American oil service companies, including Halliburton, the Texas-based firm Dick Cheney ran
before becoming George W. Bush's running mate in 2000. The war is the one and only reason for this long sought and newly acquired access. Full
coverage: The Iraq War, 10 years on Oil was not the only goal of the Iraq War, but it was certainly the central one, as top U.S. military and
political figures have attested to in the years following the invasion. "Of course it's about oil; we can't really deny that," said Gen. John
Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command and Military Operations in Iraq, in 2007. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan agreed, writing
in his memoir, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." Then-Sen.
and now Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same in 2007: "People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are."

And if that was our purpose why not invade a country that has more? Iraq is one of the lowest producers in the region of oil, especially compared to
Saudi Arabia or Iran.

And if it wasn't the purpose why did the U.S. privatize it? Why invest money to upgrade their refineries, and distribution network, if it wasn't
going to be beneficial to the U.S.? Why was Halliburton involved? The company that Dick Cheney was once the executive CEO. It's funny how that
would be considered a conflict of interest in any local or state government, yet it was ignored at the federal level.

And Bush was going off of faulty information but it was looked at by the Congress and other nations and believed to be reliable so how do you blame
him for making it up?

On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have
weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign
minister, a member of Saddam’s inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.

On April 23, 2006, CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed
that the agency had received documentary intelligence from Naji Sabri, Saddam’s foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. “We continued to
validate him the whole way through,” said Drumheller. “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to
fit into the policy, to justify the policy.”

And people forget that he did use chemical weapons and invade 2 other nearby countries while subjecting his people to all sorts of horrendous
crimes.

The U.S. was a long time supporter of Sadam. They even supported him during the war with Iran. There's a lot of other countries who have subjected
their people to horrendous crimes (North Korea, China, Syria to name a few). Than according to your beliefs we should be invading them too! Lasting
change in ideology only happens when the people themselves overthrow their own governments. We have no business interjecting our belief system nor
using force on another country. (Ever heard of the war in Vietnam?)

All of that privatization could easily have happened as a consequence of the war with out being the determining factor that started it.

Point is that we do not know the reasons but more than likely everything was discussed and taken into consideration before the decision was made. Did
they discuss the oil?

Probably.

Was it the main reason for going to war? Neither you or I can do anymore than guess at it. As for invading other countries who have human rights
violations that can only be determined by looking at all the issues.

Are they a security risk?
Do we have any stake in their country or the region?
Can we win?

The list is almost endless. And as for supporting Saddam during the war with Iran I have to say....so what?

Does that mean we now must be loyal to him forever? Doesn't work that way.

Another question, was killing Saddam Hussein worth it for America, and for what?

-Almost 4,500 troops killed.

-More than 32,000 were wounded, including thousands with critical brain and spinal injuries.

-It cost us 3 trillion dollars and at the same time helped drive down our economy.

-Thousands of grieving families who lost their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands and fathers.

Let's not mention the 100,000 - 600,000 Iraqi's who lost their lives due to "the war on WMD's." Remember the cocky joke Bush recited at a
dinner, "no WMD's here, oh, there's no WMD's there..."

Killing 100,000-600,000 Iraqis and sending 4,500 or young men and women to their death and being maimed for life is no laughing matter. It's in poor
taste, and shows no remorse for the lies he perpetuated on the American people that caused so many deaths and heart aches.

Yeah Saddam was a real jewel..but look at the place now.. falling into civil war; and most likely will remain that way until another ruthless SOB like
Saddam can take over.. and the USA will do its best to make sure he is the USA's SOB. Kinda like Karzai of Afghanistan.

I am wondering if it is Hopechests job to try and derail any thread posted by someone that might cast dispersions on any USA acts in the past? Or is
Hopechest really that much of a uninformed individual? I know I get tired of Hopechests input that is not very well thought out or researched.

Whatever "justification" the lying elite came up with at the time has since proven out to be total BS. And Granted Bail is 100% CORRECT... USA gave
Saddam the "green light" and then used it against him.

Everyone is forgetting the PNAC documents...and the goals of said think tank. It is not a left-right thing, or Repub or Democrat thing, it is the
elite thing! PNAC think tank got dissolved in 2006 because it was no longer needed. All of their goals were going forward...and still ARE going
forward..and will continue to go forward by the next puppet in the White House. Maybe Hillary...(puke) or Bush 3, (puke again)..or maybe Obama will
still be in office under some sort of national emergency BS. IN FACT, the USA is starting to remind me of a nation in deep need of liberation from a
totalitarian government! HA! But oh well... that is why I left the cesspool. People keep electing some elitist idiot to office. And all them bullets
bought by the DHS will be used on Democrats and Republicans BOTH without giving a damn what party affiliation the victims belong to. Good luck on
sorting it all out USA, I refused to participate in the whole mess it has become.

I can't blame GrantedBail for wanting to take on Hopechest..lol... in a debate of sorts. But Hopechest sort of derails the thread by the OP. And it
would be nice if Hopechest would refrain from doing it all the time.

Iraq has become the classic example of what happens when there is no clear ambition or exit strategy. Maybe that was the plan? Total anarchy of sorts?
Destabilization of the whole dang region? It will continue to be the theme in the region...next comes Syria, and anarchy reigning supreme there too.

WeR Peons is spot on as well with his? responses.

And to Mideast... Don't know if God has much to do with the hell being unleashed upon the earth these days!! All I know is that it isn't right at
all! And it just a handful of evil people managing to do it all too. They pull the strings.

Propaganda is a fine art these days, they got it down to a science really. Add fluoride to the water.. provide bread and circuses... the sheep
follow.. very sad situation. Hopefully you aren't located where you could become a innocent victim of this world craziness going on.

upsidedownforklift, THANK you for posting this reminder on just how awful wars almost always are! I am a pretty conservative person, was in the
military, all that rot.. but what is going on all over the world aint right at all. Not in the least. Nobody should be bombing or killing unless they
are ATTACKED first..I mean REALLY attacked not some false flag BS..

Someday all this karma will hopefully come home to roost in the right places; and those really responsible will pay for their crimes. Where is Judge
Dredd when you need him?? LOL

The problem here is simple. People who post this stuff just don't have the education to understand the powers granted to the President, as Commander
in Chief of our armed forces, by the constitution.

The President can, declare Martial law, dissolve the legislative and judicial branches of government, force their members to report for military duty,
bind the states under his military jurisdiction and basically take over as dictator.

His direct orders to the JCOS will be carried out without question and he can attack any country anywhere in the world he wants. Since the Congress
has been dissolved the war powers act is invalid.

That is exactly what Abraham Lincoln did and he forced his foes in the Senate to fill sand bags in front of the Whitehouse as he watched from the Oval
Office.

That is why people who post stuff like "Bush went into Iraq for oil" or some false flag nonsense to escalate some war are laughed at.

The President of the United States can destroy the entire world anytime he wants-his orders WILL be carried out as commander in chief of the armed
forces and not one single person in the military chain of command will question them.

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